Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:22:02 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario |
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On Monday 05 December 2005 19:10, Dave Airlie wrote: >> To the larger argument about supporting binary drivers, >> all Arjan manages to prove with his post is that, >> if handled in the worst possible way, support for >> binary drivers would be a disaster. Who can disagree >> with that? > >And do you think that given the opportunity, any company is going >spend the extra money required to not do it in the worst possible >way?? Companies want to spend as little as possible on drivers, and >drop support as soon as it makes sense financially to do so, they >aren't going to come to the correct best possible way on their own, or >via consortia of companies ala CEL or OSDL, they require outside >pressure to make them change their mindset from the only example they >have which is developing Windows drivers.. > Which is the best reason in the world to buy and use, the open source video card now under development, and I hear its less than 3-4 months from production status now, and at a competitive, sub $150 USD price.
If 50% of nvidia's currant linux market share were to dissappear a month after this card becomes available for purchase by those whom one might categorize as believers, I'd think that would send a message loud enough to be heard.
Particularly if windows drivers are available, open sourced, and installable on a winderz box using the normal install wizard, and promoted as such to the joe six-packs of the world. At the right price, that would send an even louder message to both nvidia and ati, who so far, seems to be all hat & no cattle. While the drivers in x.orgs code seem to be working fairly well, and absolutely stable, I'm sure there are hardware things in this 9200SE I have here that are not being used by x.org's code. It works well enough to play tux-racer, but not well, keyboard response acts like the machine is being hogged by the video.
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